They’re not. Our information pipe is just totally broken, people literally have no idea Trump is like this.

I don’t know what your country is like, but phone apps have basically eaten a lot of my family, and others I know. Sure there are some bible thumpers and such, but mostly it’s just… complete ignorance. An information diet of pure Facebook, tiktok, discord or whatever.

But my mom is still very sane and sharp, and by sheer coincidence, she has no idea how to use Facebook or any social media.

The moral of this story?

Biomagnification.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomagnification

The sword is backup. This guy knows science can go wrong.

Narrator: It did not.

Can confirm. Divers freak out, though I don’t understand why.

But the orca is fake. 100% never been eaten by one.

My level of worry hasn’t lowered in years…

But honestly? Low on the totem pole. Even with Trumpy governments.

Things like engagement optimized social media warping people’s minds for profit, the internet outside of apps dying before our eyes, Sam Altman/OpenAI trying to squelch open source generative models so we’re dependent on their Earth burning plans, blatant, open collusion with the govt, everything turning into echo chambers… There are just too many disasters for me to even worry about the government spying on me.

If I lived in China or Russia, the story would be different. I know, I know. But even now, I’m confident I can given the U.S. president the middle finger in my country, but I’d really be more scared for my life in more authoritarian strongman regions.

American here.

If Linus Torvalds bans Americans over something stupid we did, and my nationality gets insulted, this will be me:

(I am actually Central Texan, TYVM. Bring the insults.)

American here.

Americans are idiots. All of us are morons. I accept the insults on my nationality, even personally. Bring it. I don’t know how else to say/generalize it, because it’s true.

I’m gonna nod my head if something happens and Linus Torvalds bans us too.

I’m not sure how you’d solve the problem of big corpos becoming cheap content farms while avoiding harming the people who use these tools to make something rich and beautiful, but I have to believe there’s a way to thread that needle.

Easy, local AI.

Keep generative AI locally runnable instead of corporate hosted. Make it free, open and accessible. This gives the little guys the cost advantage, and takes away the scaling advantages of mega publishers. Lemmy users should be familiar with this concept.

Whenever I hear people rail against AI, I tell them they are handing the world to Sam Altman and his dystopia, who do not care about stealing content, equality, or them. I get a lot of hate for it. But they need to be fighting the corporate vs open AI battle instead.

She’s a keeper.

Especially if she says this kinda unprompted.

There’s another trolley coming, and she’s trying to stop it from running over people again by crashing the first trolley into it.

Sounds like it’d be nice if you had real control over the car’s software, and you could roll it back.

This… also makes me a little more weary driving around Teslas in traffic.

Honestly, they should fight fire with fire? Another vision model (like Qwen VL) would catch this

You can ask it “does this image seem fake?” and it would look at it, reason something out and conclude it’s fake, instead of… I dunno, looking for smaller patters or whatever their internal model does?

Especially since it means there could be more.

Ants too.

I’ve learned to love bees. They can ride in my car. Maybe even some spiders.

Hornets, though? Big fat nope.

I agree.

But also downvoting is very useful as community moderation tool. I participate in some communities with regular, scummy spam posts that are technically off topic and not quite bannable. They’d get naive, hype driven upvotes if left alone. And I like that there’s a community mechanism to bury them.

The localllama people are feeling quite mixed about this, as they’re still charging through the nose for more RAM. Like, orders of magnitude more than the bigger ICs actually cost.

It’s kinda poetic. Apple wants to go all in on self-hosted AI now, yet their incredible RAM stinginess over the years is derailing that.

Presumably you will advance along with humanity though, or failing that, just figure out the transcendence thing yourself with so much time?

I don’t think anyone would choose to stay ‘meatbag human’ for trillions of years.

There is a breaking point, eventually. YouTube’s trajectory is gonna make next quarter’s revenue great, but eventually something else will pick up user’s attention instead.

I don’t even look at the algo anymore, I just go out and search for content externally.

Maybe I am just out of touch, but I smell another bubble bursting when I look at how enshittified all major web services are simultaneously becoming.

It feels like something has to give, right?

We have YouTube, Reddit, Twitter, and more just racing to enshittify like I can’t even believe, Google Search is racing to destroy the internet, yet they’re also at the ‘critical mass’ of ‘too big to fail’ and shoved out all their major competitors already (other than Discord I guess).